On 2007-03-20, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what file? the markupped text? I don't think that `ms' markup is harder (or > easier) to understand than latex markup.
It is very much harder: just look at the example you posted. Do you consider that readable? Aside from the command names being totally unintelligible pairs of characters, even the flow breaks all the time with the commands starting a new line. > looking at the documentation as a prerequisite of generating a > sensible document: would you say that is different from latex??? A sensible LaTeX document can be edited to a large extend without knowing any LaTeX, by aping what is there already, as it is quite intelligible. Not so with *roff. > concerning "understanding" the latex source: I will give you that latex markup > is much more verbose (which I don't like: I have to type it or make lots of > vi shortcuts or what else) and therefore one could easier guess that It's not that verbose: You don't write the longer commands that often, paragraph separation is an empty line, etc. You also don't have to break the flow all the time unlike with *roff. (Yeah, there's also some inline syntax at least in -man, but it's quite awful HT/XML-like begin/end tag stuff.) ... Anyway, the original idea indeed was that of an _interactive_ tutorial. -- Tuomo
